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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.


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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER